The day the stooges bit back

[DoYouEverWonder]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=527299

Iraqis win showdown over new President, but Baghdad is rocked by explosions


02 June 2004

It was supposed to be the day the light would appear at the end of the tunnel for the Americans in the occupation of Iraq.

But, even as an interim government that will assume sovereignty at the end of the month was finally named, there were stark signs of the terrible difficulties ahead.

Paul Bremer, the US administrator in Iraq, was left humiliated as his favoured candidate, Adnan al-Pachachi, rejected his invitation to become Iraq's first president since Saddam Hussein, forcing the US to install the man it had tried hard to avoid, Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar.

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Baghdad's streets are strewn with rubbish; geysers of sewage erupt in the wealthiest parts of town and, at times, you can find yourself driving in a three-inch pool of raw sewage. There are few enough signs of reconstruction, despite the $18bn (nearly £10bn) President George Bush has pledged.

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[saigon68]

1. the $18bn (nearly £10bn) President George Bush has pledged.

Is about to be diverted into Swiis Bank Accounts and various Corporate Coffers !!!!!!!!!!

[kentuck]

2. And $3 billion is going to rebuild the Iraqi secret service...

at the request of Allawi..

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Maybe we should try rebuilding

their sewer system first?

[saigon68]

4. That idea was thought of---but Halliburton

does not yet rebuild sewer systems and they first thought the idea stunk to high heaven

[rfkrocks]

5. But streets stinking to high heaven

is meant for a faith based program and not the US:evilgrin: